Reviewing UiPath (NYSE:PATH) and Elys BMG Group (NASDAQ:ELYS)

Elys BMG Group (NASDAQ:ELYS) and UiPath (NYSE:PATH) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, institutional ownership, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent recommendations for Elys BMG Group and UiPath, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Elys BMG Group	0	0	1	0	3.00
UiPath	0	16	2	0	2.11

Elys BMG Group presently has a consensus price target of $1.00, indicating a potential upside of 249,900.00%. UiPath has a consensus price target of $17.47, indicating a potential upside of 19.83%. Given Elys BMG Group’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Elys BMG Group is more favorable than UiPath.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

62.5% of UiPath shares are held by institutional investors. 18.5% of Elys BMG Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 22.4% of UiPath shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Profitability

This table compares Elys BMG Group and UiPath’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Elys BMG Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
UiPath	-8.13%	-3.98%	-2.76%

Volatility and Risk

Elys BMG Group has a beta of 2.66, indicating that its share price is 166% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, UiPath has a beta of 0.87, indicating that its share price is 13% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Elys BMG Group and UiPath”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Elys BMG Group	$42.68 million	0.00	-$18.26 million	($0.56)	0.00
UiPath	$1.38 billion	5.80	-$89.88 million	($0.20)	-72.90

Elys BMG Group has higher earnings, but lower revenue than UiPath. UiPath is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Elys BMG Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Elys BMG Group beats UiPath on 7 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Elys BMG Group

Elys BMG Group, Inc. engages in the provision of business-to-consumer gaming services in the United States and Europe. The company offers betting platform software services to leisure betting establishments; and operates web based and land-based leisure betting establishments. Its gaming product offerings include sports betting; and online casino, such as online slot and table games, poker, bingo, skilled and interactive games, virtual sports betting, and horse racing. It provides its products through physical, land-based retail locations; newgioco.it or commercial webskins linked to its website; and mobile devices. The company was formerly known as Elys Game Technology, Corp. and changed its name to Elys BMG Group, Inc. in January 2024. Elys BMG Group, Inc. was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Toronto, Canada.

About UiPath

UiPath Inc. provides an end-to-end automation platform that offers a range of robotic process automation (RPA) solutions primarily in the United States, Romania, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and internationally. The company offers a suite of interrelated software to build, manage, run, engage, measure, and govern automation within the organization. Its platform's embedded AI, ML, and NLP capabilities improve decisioning and information processing; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; emulate human behavior allows organizations to address a myriad of use cases; multi-tenant platform enterprise deployment with security and governance and Automation Cloud, which enables customers to begin automating without the need to provision infrastructure, install applications, or perform additional configurations; intuitive interface and low-code, drag-and-drop functionality; signed to enable people and automations to work together; and tracks, measures, and forecasts the performance of automations, enables customers to gain powerful insights and generate key performance indicators with actionable metric. It serves banking and financial services, healthcare, insurance, public sectors, manufacturing, retail, and telecom industries. The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in New York, New York.